Word: bans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This ticket ban of the Harvard Athletic Association, whose most drastic aspect seems to be debarment from the Yale, Dartmouth, West Point and Michigan football games, for these games will have no public ticket sale, can hardly be judged harsher than the methods used by larger business organizations in similar circumstances. It is a necessary expedient for efficient administration. It is unfortunate; but it is neither radical nor unjust...
...then there is the spread which antedates the famous ban on "plum cake" in 1639. The present has inherited all of this zest and feeling of an institution that harks back to the beginnings of Harvard. Yet all of this is mere froth, brilliant colors and empty noise. But behind it there is a meaning, and a very substantial tradition. It is the pageant of the unforgettable past...
...Chamber quieted he continued: "Any attempt to inculcate hostility to the glorious wines of France is more than deplorable and I, as a Minister and representative of the Government, disavow them. I am about to take steps either to ban the school manuals, into which such heretical doctrine has been allowed to creep, or to have the publishers amend them in such a way as to restore to wine drinking its true character in the eyes ot school children. Wine should be one ot our national glories...
...power to approve rail mergers. Effect of this bill would be to "freeze" the railroad map as it is until such time as holding companies can be brought under Federal control. Should roads attempt to merge without authority, under the Couzens Bill the U. S. could enjoin them. The ban on consolidations would be lifted if and when "adequate legislation properly designed to protect and promote the public interest" is enacted...
...since Cumberland has once been a royal, ducal title, a mere Viscount would probably not assume it. † Contrary to popular impression, the British Embassy never became "dry." Its cellars were amply stocked with liquor before the Howard ban became effective. Alcoholic drinks continued to be served by the Ambassador from this supply...